Franz Xaver von Gietl

Franz Xaver von Gietl
Franz Xaver von Gietl
Born	27 August 1803 Höchstädt an der Donau
Died	19 March 1888(1888-03-19) (aged 84)
Education	University of Munich
Medical career
Profession	physician
Institutions	personal physician to Maximilian II of Bavaria, University of Munich, Municipal Clinic of Munich (Klinikum links der Isar)
Research	fevers, esp.Cholera and Typhoid fever

Franz Xaver Ritter von Gietl (27 August 1803 – 19 March 1888) was a German physician.

Life

Gietl studied medicine at the universities of Landshut, Würzburg and Munich. In 1827 he received his doctorate form the University of Munich with a pathological work on neuro ganglia.

1831 he was sent by the government to examine the cholera in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. In 1834 he was appointed to the post of the personal physician to the then crown prince and later king Maximilian II of Bavaria. In addition in 1838 he became Professor at the University of Munich and from 1842 to 1851 Director of the Municipal Clinic of Munich (Klinikum links der Isar). With the end of the winter semester 1885/1886 he retired as lecturer because of his advancing heart disease.

Gietls work focussed on Cholera and Typhoid fever esp. clinical observations and their treatment. In addition he published on Erysipelas and statistical observations at the Municipal Clinic.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1883 he became the 11th Honorary Citizen of Munich (comp. List of honorary citizens of Munich).

Works

• Gietl, Franz Xaver von (1865). Die Ursachen des enterischen Typhus in München (in German). Leipzig: Engelmann. Die Ursachen des enterischen Typhus in München.
• Gietl, Franz Xaver von (1875). Die Grundzüge meiner Lehren über Cholera und Typhus (in German). München: J.A. Finsterlin'sch.
• Gietl, Franz Xaver von (1855). Die Cholera : Nach Beobachtungen auf d. I. medicin. Klinik u. Abtheilung im städt. Hospital zu München (in German). München: Kaiser.

References

• Julius Pagel (1904), "Gietl, Franz Xaver Ritter von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 49, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 350–351
• Julius Pagel (edit.) (1901) (in German). "Gietl, Franz Xaver Ritter von" In Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Biographical encyclopedia of distinguished physicians of the 19th century). Berlin, Wien: Urban & Schwarzenberg. pp. 599–600.